St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-07

borhood of $S, and told him he
should go to Chicago, but instead of that ne
came down here to st. Paul and wrote letter
TO Charley Hegeners brother, Richard III.
Hegener, Il barber at First avenue south, be-
tween Washington and Second, refuting the
other sworn statement and denying it. l
think he must have been prompted by mo-
tlveS of petty revenge when he wrote that
letter 10 Richard. He said in the letter that
the statement he had made was false; that
he had been crminally intimate with Chareys
wife, and that he only made that statement
to get money TO go away with.
That was lie from beginning to end, be-
cause did not give him the money until
after he had signed the statement. l says:
"l ou don't want to stay here. You want to
get away" He said he had no money, and
gave him the money and he said he would go.
The revolver that Mrs. Hegener used be-
longed to Charley, and he has had it good
many years. suppose she left to find Muir
ply as soon as she heard about the letter he
had written to her brother-in-law.
ANOTHER STORY.
The statement of Otto Wettwer, clerk in
the Winona house in st. Paul. whose brother
married sister of Mrs. Hegener. is this:
Murphy stopped there ut the house when
he came over from Minneapolis. Mrs. Hege-
ner and my wife came on the o'clock train
from Minneapolis yesterday aud came at once
Hegener, and came over with her from where
we live at 10l Washington avenue south.
When she came into the hotel l wGs behind
the counter The first. thing she said
was: us Jack Murphy here?" l knew
there was trouble ahead. so l says: mo, he
was here, but he left, and don't know whore
he went to; maybe he will come back, and
maybe not" She says; He must be here
L am sure he is here Murphy was sitting
behind the stove all this time, and heard the
talk, and watched the whole performance.
After while he got up and came to her, and
says: did you want to see me?" She says:
Jack, did you take back what you said?
Did you ever have anything TO do with me?'
He says: Il have said nothing but what is
true" She asked him again, and said: 81
have notion to shoot you right here, il
it was not for my poor little children"
l didn't know she had a revolver with her.
but my wife says, ''She has got 4 revolver in
her Clothes" 1 went up and says: Bertha,
give me that revolver" She says: No" 1
says: "Show me both hands, She says:
II don't have to-" After that my wife and
tried to coax them to come up into the sit
ttng-room, but they wouldn't come
He went away towards the door,
talked together at the door, Ny wife and
went upstairs, aad before long we heard q
Shot, and looked out and saw all the people
running up, and went down and found out
that she had shot him.
The statements made by Murphy to which
Thompson alludes are i'll the hands of the
police. A number of pedestrians were eye
witnesses to the shooting, among them
William Robertson, real estate dealer in
the Drake block.
THE FINISHING TOUCH.
John F. Murphy died at the ST. Joseph
hospital shortly after II o'clock. His
friends left him at 10 o'clock, and only DR..
Welles, of the hospital, was present when
he expired. After the relapse at $50 he
made no sound or sign, and died in intense
agony.